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may 2, 2011, us special operations forces killed the world's most wanted man in a raid on a house in pakistan. the operation gave the world a glimpse into a vast and secret campaign being waged by the united states. it's known as the kill/capture program. >> all right, spot on 1-6-0. ( explosion ) >> was it good? >> roger, control. >> narrator: it's a campaign that the military says has killed or captured more than 12,000 militants in the last year. ( explosion ) using cutting-edge technology, elite teams are hunting down taliban and al qaeda leaders one by one, and taking them out. >> firing. missile away. >> missile's away. >> roger that. ( indistinct radio chatter ) >> we're getting so good at various electronic means of identifying, tracking, locating, members of the insurgency that we're able to employ this extraordinary machine, an almost industrial-scale counterterrorism killing machine that has been able to pick out and take off the battlefield not just the top-level, al qaeda- level insurgents, but also increasingly is being used to target mid-level insurgents. >> narrator: the kill/
may 2, 2011, us special operations forces killed the world's most wanted man in a raid on a house in pakistan. the operation gave the world a glimpse into a vast and secret campaign being waged by the united states. it's known as the kill/capture program. >> all right, spot on 1-6-0. ( explosion ) >> was it good? >> roger, control. >> narrator: it's a campaign that the military says has killed or captured more than 12,000 militants in the last year. ( explosion ) using...
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these young men touched a chord among considerable numbers of muslims in the arab world and in pakistan and afghanistan. that is what is so dangerous about islam at this moment. these young men have captured the moral high ground, not of the whole of islam yet, but they are in danger of capturing the moral high ground of a great religious tradition, and i think that is the great, great challenge that faces muslims today is to repudiate that. ( applause ) >> there's not a fine hour. and now i want to bring to you the reverend dr. david benke, who is president of the atlantic district of the lutheran church, the missouri synod. god bless you. >> the yankee stadium day was a pivotal day in my entire life. it was a day when everything that i have stood for as a human being, as well as as a person of faith, was going to be on the line. so take the hand of one next to you now and join me in prayer on this field of dreams turned into god's house of prayer. we were in the middle of a very emotional, highly charged event. there was a sense of people wanting to release these profound emotions tha
these young men touched a chord among considerable numbers of muslims in the arab world and in pakistan and afghanistan. that is what is so dangerous about islam at this moment. these young men have captured the moral high ground, not of the whole of islam yet, but they are in danger of capturing the moral high ground of a great religious tradition, and i think that is the great, great challenge that faces muslims today is to repudiate that. ( applause ) >> there's not a fine hour. and...
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it... these are unfair allegations on pakistan. pakistan has done so much. we have lost over 3,000 soldiers and officers in this war. we have cleared so many areas. so many al qaeda leaders have been apprehended by our intelligence agencies. of course, there was a sharing of intelligence with the other side, as well. so, with these kind of performance and record, if still someone is not satisfied, then we are not to be blamed in this. >> smith: but frontline's investigation found that taliban leaders still move freely around the country. my colleague, stephen grey, made contact with a taliban commander currently sheltering in pakistan. he arranged to meet him just outside the capital, islamabad, not far from where osama bin laden was killed. the commander told us how dependent the taliban is on sanctuary in pakistan to wage war across the border. >> grey: is the border hard to cross? >> frankly, we don't know on any given time or day what side the pakistanis are on. there is overwhelming evidence that, you know, even as the pakistani government takes, you kn
it... these are unfair allegations on pakistan. pakistan has done so much. we have lost over 3,000 soldiers and officers in this war. we have cleared so many areas. so many al qaeda leaders have been apprehended by our intelligence agencies. of course, there was a sharing of intelligence with the other side, as well. so, with these kind of performance and record, if still someone is not satisfied, then we are not to be blamed in this. >> smith: but frontline's investigation found that...
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his job was to set up his sources in pakistan. the dea even let him out on bail and sent him there to maintain his cover. >> that happens because there was a lot of suspicion that maybe he was simply trying to set people up. but if he had the ability to physically travel to pakistan and show his face, that would allay concerns. >> rotella: so what's to stop him in terms of the amount of trust they had in him? i mean, he could theoretically just stay there and not come back, right? >> often, what you'll see is the relationship between informant and agent sort of develops, and time goes by, there's a level of trust that gets established. >> rotella: the dea says it funded only one of gilani's trips to pakistan. but while on probation, he began traveling back and forth, often without his handlers' knowledge. on one trip, he came to lahore and attended this mosque, known for its support of the islamic militant group lashkar-e-taiba. for decades, lashkar has been fighting pakistan's guerilla war against india in the disputed region of
his job was to set up his sources in pakistan. the dea even let him out on bail and sent him there to maintain his cover. >> that happens because there was a lot of suspicion that maybe he was simply trying to set people up. but if he had the ability to physically travel to pakistan and show his face, that would allay concerns. >> rotella: so what's to stop him in terms of the amount of trust they had in him? i mean, he could theoretically just stay there and not come back, right?...
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>> i encouraged america to use air force-- "bomb pakistan. force it to stop supporting taliban and al qaeda," period, let alone drones. i said, "drones are not sufficient. this is global war against terror." i am very, very direct on that. so, i was urging u.s., and i am urging them now-- whatever can hurt al qaeda and taliban and their supporters in pakistan, use it. you will regret not using it today. >> smith: saleh's special obsession is pakistan's spy agency, the isi. >> isi has created a space for al qaeda and taliban to launch operations. without their protection, they won't be able to do these operations. so isi knows they are doing it. and isi is happy they are doing it because, through them, pakistan promotes her policy in afghanistan. and the policy is "taliban are ours. and they are to dominate afghanistan." >> smith: the pakistani officials have long wanted to see you go. >> yes. >> smith: now, you are out. they won. >> they won, in a way, because i am not in a position of power. but they lost, still. i am in my country. and i ta
>> i encouraged america to use air force-- "bomb pakistan. force it to stop supporting taliban and al qaeda," period, let alone drones. i said, "drones are not sufficient. this is global war against terror." i am very, very direct on that. so, i was urging u.s., and i am urging them now-- whatever can hurt al qaeda and taliban and their supporters in pakistan, use it. you will regret not using it today. >> smith: saleh's special obsession is pakistan's spy...
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world trade center bombing in '93, the ringleader, ramzi ahmed yousef, he was about to move within pakistan, and there was a small window, a closing window, to catch him. and so, thinking there might be somebody at the fbi on a sunday morning, i called. >> narrator: o'neill had made his reputation investigating white-collar crime, drug rings, and abortion clinic bombings. >> i said, "who's this?" and he responded, "well, who the hell are you? i'm john o'neill." and i explained to him, i'm from the white house, and i do terrorism, and i need some help. and i told him our story on the classified phone line, and he went into action. >> narrator: in 20 years, he'd chased a lot of bad guys, but nobody like ramzi yousef. >> yousef is one of the most dangerous people on the planet, very smart. getting him and incapacitating him was a significant public safety issue, and john o'neill recognized that, was not about to take no for an answer anywhere before he was taken into custody. ( telephone dialing ) ( telephone rings ) >> white house. >> o'neill put together an arrest team that managed to catch
world trade center bombing in '93, the ringleader, ramzi ahmed yousef, he was about to move within pakistan, and there was a small window, a closing window, to catch him. and so, thinking there might be somebody at the fbi on a sunday morning, i called. >> narrator: o'neill had made his reputation investigating white-collar crime, drug rings, and abortion clinic bombings. >> i said, "who's this?" and he responded, "well, who the hell are you? i'm john o'neill."...
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he had ordered a daring joint cia/jsoc cross-border raid into pakistan. ( gunshot ) >> go, go, go, go, go! >> go, go, go, go, go, go! ( gunshots ) >> go, go, go, go, go! >> obama: tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> narrator: almost ten years after it was created, top secret america could claim it's most significant victory. >> obama: thank you. may god bless you, and may god bless the united states of america. >> clarke: we're all very glad that bin laden has finally been caught, but it was a handful of people. it wasn't this enormous, bloated, tens-of-thousands-of- people apparatus that we've set up. it was a small, highly skilled, highly dedicated group of intelligence analysts. that's who found him. not all of these contractors, not these giant agencies and giant centers. >> narrato5ten years after it began, an army of recruits continue to fight a war that was started in the shadows. >> priest: there are close to a million people who are living in >>
he had ordered a daring joint cia/jsoc cross-border raid into pakistan. ( gunshot ) >> go, go, go, go, go! >> go, go, go, go, go, go! ( gunshots ) >> go, go, go, go, go! >> obama: tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> narrator: almost ten years after it was created, top secret america could claim it's most significant victory. >>...
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but a few months later, a shootout at this safe house in faisalabad, pakistan. the man taken into custody was believed to be the highest level al qaeda figure ever arrested-- zayn al-abidin muhammad husayn, otherwise known as abu zubaydah. soufan was called in. so, in 2002, you get a call to speak to an al qaeda detainee named abu zubaydah? >> yes. abu zubaydah is a terrorist facilitator. he was involved in a series of plots to attack american and israeli targets, and even to attack... to attack the pope during his visit to the holy land. >> smith: as a result of an extensive pre-publication review by the cia, the zubaydah chapter of soufan's book is heavily redacted. the interrogation remains a controversial episode in the fight against al qaeda. the cia maintains soufan's participation is still classified. in your book, pronouns-- "i", "we", "us"-- are redacted? >> yeah, and the fact that myself and steve gaudin, you know, my partner on that mission from the bureau, we've been... we've been redacted from that chapter as if we were not there. >> smith: but you
but a few months later, a shootout at this safe house in faisalabad, pakistan. the man taken into custody was believed to be the highest level al qaeda figure ever arrested-- zayn al-abidin muhammad husayn, otherwise known as abu zubaydah. soufan was called in. so, in 2002, you get a call to speak to an al qaeda detainee named abu zubaydah? >> yes. abu zubaydah is a terrorist facilitator. he was involved in a series of plots to attack american and israeli targets, and even to attack... to...